This issue of INFERIOR FIVE doesn't contain a literal crossover at all. It was a parody comic in the same sort of vein as Marvel's NOT BRAND ECHH, albeit with a series of continuing characters. But the depictions of the Marvel characters being parodied in this one are so thin that I think an argument … Continue reading Lost Crossovers: INFERIOR FIVE #10
One of the changes to my school routine that happened during this year of sixth grade is that I was placed into the Gifted Student program. It had been clear for several years that I was ahead of most of the other students in my grade academically. But it was also clear that I had … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE #47
This was the final issue of JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY that I got in my Windfall Comics purchase of 1988, and it was a story that I'd read before, when it was published years earlier in SPECIAL MARVEL EDITION. Nevertheless, i was still happy to get the original printing, which my circle of comic book readers … Continue reading WC: JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #123
As the Direct Market opened up in the late 1970s and early 1980s, in addition to a sudden surge in prospective comic book publishers there also came an increased number of comic book fanzines. These publications tended to have better production values as a whole than the cheap mimeographed publications of years past, but most … Continue reading THE COMIC TIMES #2: Steve Englehart Interview
This particular week, I also picked up the latest issue of MARVEL SUPER-HEROES which reprinted stories published a number of years earlier in INCREDIBLE HULK. Since the Hulk now had his own television series, this reprint title began performing better as young viewers sought out the Green Goliath's adventures in print. Marvel tended to blurb … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL SUPER-HEROES #78
As the Silver Age kicked off in the late 1950s, DC/National Comics wasn't the only publisher testing out the genre once again,. All throughout the decade, different publishers had attempted to find success with new costumed heroes with names like Captain Flash, the Avenger and Strong Man. And Archie Comics was no exception. Getting a … Continue reading Brand Echh: The Double Life of Private Strong #1
As in the case of FANTASTIC FOUR #200 and UNCANNY X-MEN #115, I had also missed DEFENDERS #65 during that same period--all of them were released during the same month and so it's obvious to think that they must have all been part of the same waylaid shipment. But as opposed to the other two, … Continue reading BHOC: DEFENDERS #66
I've always been just a little bit fascinated by this cover to ACTION COMICS #319. That's an awful lot of empty dead space to leave at the upper left side of the cover--an area that falls into the "Dynamic Live Area" that is most likely to be visible on racks whether the books are displayed … Continue reading WC: ACTION COMICS #319
This is the third and final part of our survey of the first issue of future Marvel Executive Editor Mark Gruenwald's classic fanzine OMNIVERSE, which dealt with the question of consistent reality in comic book stories. Or continuity, as it is more typically thought of. While it didn't quite reach the heights of a scientific … Continue reading OMNIVERSE #1, Part Three
This next issue of DAREDEVIL featured the return of a hallmark of the series. Not DD's original yellow costume--something that I was excited to see, having read the first DAREDEVIL issue in SON OF ORIGINS OF MARVEL COMICS--but rather artist Gene Colan returning to the book that he'd labored on for many years throughout the … Continue reading BHOC: DAREDEVIL #156
The Tom Brevoort Experience 